NEUTRALITY AND EUROPEAN SECURITY GOVERNANCE DURING AND AFTER THE
COLD WAR
Conference organized by the Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs with the support of the
Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus, the University of Akron and Kent State’s Lemnitzer Center for
NATO and European Union Studies
Monday, April 6, 2009 and Tuesday, April 7, 2009
UNESCO Amphitheater, Europa Building
University of Nicosia
Monday, April 6:
Opening Address:
18:00–18:15
Chair:
Petros M. Kareklas
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus
Andreas Theophanous
Director, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
OPENING SESSION
18:15–18:35
James Sperling
University of Akron, USA
“The Legal and Diplomatic Origins and Practice of Neutrality in the Westphalian State System”
18:35–18:45
S. Victor Papacosma
Director Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University, USA
“Europe’s Neutral and Nonaligned States: Between NATO and the Warsaw Pact”
18:45–19:05
Discussion
19:05–19:25
Coffee Break
SESSION I: THE PRINCIPLED NEUTRALS: SWEDEN AND SWITZERLAND
Chair:
S. Victor Papacosma
Director Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University, USA
19:25–19:45
Kjell Engelbrekt
Swedish National Defense College, Sweden
“From Neutrality to Solidarity: Swedish Security Policy after EU Accession”
19:45–20:05
Thomas Fischer
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland
“A Difficult Farewell to a National Myth: Switzerland’s Neutrality in the Process of Adaptation to the
Post-Cold War World”
20:05–20:25
Discussion
Tuesday, April 7:
SESSION II: THE COLD WAR NEUTRALS: AUSTRIA AND FINLAND
Chair:
S. Victor Papacosma
Director Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University, USA
09:00–09:20
Klaus Larres
University of Ulster, N. Ireland/UK
“Austria -- A Semi-Neutral Country?”
09:20–09:40
Amikam Nachmani
Bar Ilan University, Israel
“From Finlandization to Entanglement in the Post-Cold War Era”
09:40–10:00
Discussion
10:00–10:20
Coffee Break
SESSION III: THE POST-COLONIAL NEUTRALS: CYPRUS, IRELAND AND MALTA
Chair:
James Sperling
University of Akron, USA
10:20–10:40
Andreas Theophanous and Emilios Solomou
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
“Cyprus Foreign and Security Policy During and After the end of the Cold War: The Rhetoric Vs the
Record”
10:40–11:00
Sean Kay
Ohio Wesleyan University, USA
“Ireland: Practical Alignment, Political Neutrality”
11:00–11:20
Roderick Pace
University of Malta, Malta
“Malta’s Neutrality and Non-Alignment During and After the Cold War”
11:20–11:40
Discussion
11:40–12:00
Coffee Break
SESSION IV:
Chair:
THE NEUTRALS AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF EUROPEAN SECURITY GOVERNANCE:
NATO, THE EU, OSCE, AND THE UN
S. Victor Papacosma
Director Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University, USA
12:00–12:20
Dimitris Bourantonis and Spyros Blavoukos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
“Neutrals’ and the Development of CFSP-ESDP: Any Contribution at All?”
12:20–12:40
Andrew Cottey
University College, Dublin, Ireland
“NATO and the Neutrals: Free-riders or Proto-allies?”
12:40–13:00
Discussion
Chair:
Andreas Theophanous
University of Nicosia, Cyprus
15:00–15:20
James Sperling
University of Akron, USA
“Neutrals in the EU: Security Consumers or Providers?”
15:20–15:40
Kostas Ifantis
and
Sotiris Serbos
National and Kapodistrian
Democritus University of Thrace,
University of Athens, Greece
Greece
“The Role of Neutral Players in the European Security Architecture: The Case of CSCE/OSCE”
15:40–16:00
Discussion
16:00–16:20
S. Victor Papacosma, James Sperling, and Andreas Theophanous
Kent State University, University of Akron, and University of Nicosia
Reflection period: The book
RSVP 22841600, e-mail: cceia@unic.ac.cy
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